Title: Teasing

Summary: It's easier for him to needle her about it. (Ninth Doctor, pre-The Long Game)

Author's Notes: Sigh. Yet another thing I should have put up before TLG, but I hate typing…


It's easier for him to needle her about it, to constantly refer to Adam as her boyfriend, to pretend they're a couple… because that's almost like accepting it, even if it's not true. He's convinced it's only a matter of time before Adam pulls his finger out and makes a move, and then they really will be together, and no matter how sick it might make him feel to see that, no matter what green-eyed monster might lurk in his shadows, he knows that he'll have to grin and bear it, because to lose Adam might be to lose Rose…

And that might actually kill him.